HOUGHTON — The Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance and Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce both gave year-end summaries of their 2023 activity and previewed their priorities for 2024 at Wednesday’s monthly Keweenaw Alliance Breakfast. KEDA’s strategic plan, reviewed in full last year, looks ...
Other states are surpassing Michigan on a number measures, including economy, education and infrastructure. A May 2023 report, Michigan’s Path to a Prosperous Future, published by the Citizens Research Council, found that Michigan is currently in the bottom third of national rankings: 34th in ...
BARAGA — Woodland Firearms & Supply has a new bigger location to offer even more of what people need for a good outdoors experience. The Baraga outdoors store recently relocated from its longtime building on M-38 to one about two-and-a-half times larger on U.S. 41. Owner Jason ...
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers announced Monday that it reached a tentative deal with General Motors, capping a whirlwind few days in which GM, Ford and Stellantis agreed to generous terms that would end the union’s six weeks of targeted strikes, pending approval of the rank and ...
DETROIT — First it was Ford, then Stellantis, and now a General Motors factory has been added to the growing list of highly profitable plants where the United Auto Workers union is on strike. On Tuesday, about 5,000 workers walked out at GM’s factory in Arlington, Texas, that makes big, ...
HANCOCK — St. Vincent de Paul Society is a worldwide Catholic lay organization with nearly 700,000 people. Headquartered in Paris, France, “St. Vinny’s” as it is affectionately called locally, helps people living in poverty in 142 countries on five continents. In the Upper Peninsula, ...